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Coastal Fun in Portugal

March 20, 2013 by Dave6 Comments

We spent the day driving along the coastline from Lisbon up to just south of Coimbra. The first stop was at Obidos, a small ancient walled city of about 3,000 people. As luck would have it, this was one of the weekends for the Chocolate Festival and cars surrounded the outskirts of the city with thousands descending into the old town. We parked along with many others on the side of the road and some old guy started yelling at us and everyone else and pointing out into the fields. He seemed quite angry that all these crowds had come to his city.

Heading north we found the nearly treeless city of Nazare, site of some of the world’s largest waves – about a month ago Garrett McNamara surfed what was thought to have been a wave above 100 feet (30.5 meters). Garrett holds the current world record for tallest wave, a 78 monster – also off the rocky shores near Nazare. Not sure if that storm produced the winds that sporadically left pine and eucalyptus trees snapped off half way or toppled. We saw a number of these damaged trees in the general vicinity of Nazare.

We kept driving north and finally we found a bar next within a small park and children’s playground in the middle of San Pedro de Moel – a small town along the shores of the Atlantic Ocean – a town that becomes extremely popular in the summer. With no limes to make our beloved Capirinaha’s (one of my favorite drinks), we settled for a White Russian. The bartender had never heard of this drink so we confirmed the ingredients online and voila – we enjoyed his first ever White Russian!

Beautiful beach overlooking Nazare Point
Great little bar in middle of kids park
Small cove – Portugal’s beaches ROCK!
The tiny town of Nazare

The chocolate festival crowds, Obidos
Standing on Medieval walls overlooking Obidos
Church in Obidos
Obidos Grave Yard and Car Yard

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Filed Under: Europe · Tagged: Art, Chocolate, Drinking, Festival, Portugal

Comments

  1. nicole says

    March 21, 2013 at 1:46 am

    Love your photos! Portugal is on the list of must-see places. =D

  2. David says

    March 21, 2013 at 2:14 am

    Nicole – yes, I recommend visiting when its a bit warmer, the beaches are so beautiful – although we lucked out and didn’t have much rain 🙂

  3. Turismo en Portugal says

    March 21, 2013 at 4:04 am

    Very nice article, cool photos, we like it 🙂

  4. David says

    March 21, 2013 at 5:16 am

    Obrigado – Love the old towns and small villages north of Lisbon 🙂

  5. GetACarHire in Portugal says

    March 21, 2013 at 1:36 pm

    Awesome pics and very nice article. Portugal is one of my favorite place. Thanks for your advice David.. 🙂

  6. hotels in orlando says

    March 21, 2013 at 1:49 pm

    Nice journey…
    Beautiful photos.I love all these…

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